Multiobjects to Ease Schema Evolution in an OODBMS

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Authors: Lina Al-Jadir, Michel Léonard

Tags: 1998, conceptual modeling

The multiobject mechanism is a pertinent way to implement specialization in an object database and differs from the classical mechanism used in most object-oriented database systems. It supports multiple instantiation, automatic classification and object migration. Consequently it is well suited to take into account schema evolution. It makes schema changes more pertinent, easier to implement, and less expensive than with the classical implementation of specialization indeed. The multiobject mechanism is implemented in the F2 database system which supports schema evolution.

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